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N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season is the long-awaited new novel from one of my (and many fans) favorite voices in fantasy fiction. Jemisin has become known for creating amazing original worlds and filling them with fully-realized characters. She is also known for taking all the things that people complain about in the fantasy genre—too many people of one color, vaguely medieval settings, female characters that only fill to role of damsels in distress, pretty much all the things on the fantasy novelist’s exam—and fixing them...
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